Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-01-05

ing Goals. The sound of the roaring, kissing
and bubbling is described as loud and aW-
full. The walls of the crater are of light
brown color, and are composed of successive
layers marked out with striking regularity,
like the seats in an ampitheatre. Allow
ing ten of these layers to each interval of
twenty feet, the depth from the surface to
the incandescent matter would appear to be
200 feet. The periphery Of the crater is
about half mile, although the Japanese
calculate it at two miles and + half.
RETRIBUTION.
Just now there is popular reaction
against the gospel doctrine of retribution,
which is felt to some extent within the
church. The superficial popular mind is
clamoring for popular creed that has no
s'woe to come" in it, and some Christian
teachers are doing the best they can, in the
shape of plain Bible-teachings in the way,
to give it to them. This reaction, which is
unhappily no fgment of the imagination, is
the pendulum swing of the human mind:
Push any one truth too hard or too far, and
it will produce reaction. There is little
question that retribution has been preach
ed in past days disproportionately, intem-
perately and almost savagely. 1t has been
presented in that coarse aspect in which
lit now lies in the popular mind, which once
awakened fear, but now only aWakens de-
tiance. The popular reaction is against the
distortion of q great truth, and the folly is
being committed of casting OFF great and
solemn truth in the guise of distortion.
Retribution has been presented too much
I in the light of judicial inf1iction, and the
thinking of the multitude has run almost
entirely in the light of judge visiting ar
bitrary penalty upon culprit, the Almlgh-
ty seeking to get even with the sinners af-
ter the clumsy fashiontOf the earthly judge.
The naturalness of retribution has not been
enough impressed upon mems minds. The
truth needs to be preached from this stand
point more. Let men be told in all solem-
nifty as Paul told them, not to deceive
themselves: "God is not Knocked, for
whatsoever man soWeth, that shall he al
so reap. For he that soweth to his flesh
shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he
that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit
reap life everlasting" Let men be taught
to think of retribution as the unfolding and
manifolding of the tendencies of being
which they are developing here; that for
them retribution will be only the reaping
of harvest in kind from the seed which
they are sowing in this life. Let them
know that God does not need to reach PEN
alties after the bungling fashion of man,
and that he has so constituted us that the
dragon teeth of penalty are sown in the
commission of sin, and by universal law,
in the spiritual as we'll as the natural world
each sin brings on the penalty after its own
kind. Back of the law is God who made
it, and who sees that is executed; but the
result is no more arbitrary than is the har-
vest of cocle from the cockle-seed.-Re ID.
e. Platter.
AGE AND EXPERIENCE.
We make great mistake in America
when We lay our old men on the shelf
while they are still in their prime as coun-
selors. Benjamin Franklin was sent to
France as Minister when he was seventy
years old. and the best work he did for his
country he did between his seventy-first and
seventy-eighth years. The State of New
York had an absurd statute which removed
Chancellor Kent from the bench because he
was sixty-fve. After that time he wrote
and published his Commentaries, a book
recognized by every lawyer and statesman
as one of the most important books in the
study of our jurisprudence. So much good
did the country gain from one of the fire.
quent absurdities of New York legislation.
In England, Lord Palmerston and Mr.. Glad
stone are recent instances, we'll remember
ed, of the force which statesmen gain,
almost by the law of geometrieal progress
sion, from the memory of the experiments
which fall, from what call organic connec-
ton with the national life of the last two
generations.
The truth is that the old analogieS- and
some of the old saws deceive us in our social
conditions of today, in which life is longer,
and t,e-..4 frame in better order gener-
ally, than it was hundred years ago. Per-
haps the lower races of mankind, and the
worst fed orders of society, do not show
much improvement in the passage OF centu-
ries. But in the class of men and women
from which leaders are drawn, from which
come teachers, authors, laW.givers, invent
ors, or, in general, directors of society,
these people are on the average in better
condition at seventy than their ancestors
were at.sixty. They have better chance
for life, they have ten years more expert
ence, by the measure of time, and by the
measure of amount, they have hundred
times more. One might not take the risk
of conducting great war, with the Count
Won Moltke at the head of ones armies,
when he is over eighty years old. But so
far as intellectual force goes, and immense
experience, with the knowledge of men and
certainty what they will do-so far as these
go-the Emperor William has been wise in
trusting his affairs to Bismarck, though
Bismarck be counted such an old man.
Bismarck is no older at eighty than Richie
lieu was at three score.-Edlcdrd Everett
Hale, in Chautauquan.
HAPPINESS AS IT Is IN YOUTH AND Ma
TURITY.-Isn't it little queer: that as we
grow from youth to manhood the objects
change which bring us pleasure? The
amount of happiness realized varies but lit.
tie! There seems to be a certain amount Of
the article implanted in us; no more, no
less. The boys sled gives place to the rich
ly caparisoned sleigh, the toy house to the
imposing residence, the toy watch to the
real one, the toy boat to an ocean yacht
but the first yielded quite as much pleasure
as the last.
The Christmas gifts and pleasures of youth
brought as much happiness as houses and
lands, honors and fame do in after years.
Our happiness is all relative, any way. We
enjoy by comparison. The boys sled is big
enough to fill his mind. The mans yacht
is merely a toy, which has it's use for-a time
and then ceases to amuse. Christmas is a
reality to the young-a definite pleasure
point. TO the full grown boysa and girls it is
an attempt to arouse the old enthusiasm, the
belief in Santa Claus, the enjoyment in gift
giving and gift receiving. 1t comes and
goes, and they try hard to persuade them
selves that they enjoyed it with an old time
zest.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE UP COUNTRY
Several years ago Mr.. Theodore WenZel, a
young merchant, of Hamburg, Germany,
visited South Carolina, meeting everywhere
with a welcome. A years tramp through
the wild regions of our own beautiful up
country and that of North Carolina, con-
vinced him that it afforded great advan-
tooas IN immipration Since then he has